​Anonymous 'knocks out' Mossad website over Israel’s Gaza offensive

Hacker group Anonymous has reportedly taken down the website of the Israeli secret service Mossad in protest of Israel’s military incursion in Gaza. The ‘hacktivists’ have already targeted a number of organizations in their mission to stop the “genocide.”

In a previous attack on Monday, Anonymous knocked out multiple
Israeli government sites after one of the organization’s members
died in the West Bank over the weekend. 22-year-old Tayeb Abu
Shehada was killed during a protest in the village of Huwwara in
the West Bank after Israeli settlers and soldiers opened fire on
demonstrators, reported Bethlehem-based Ma'an News Agency.

Anonymous launched a hacking campaign against Israel coinciding
with the beginning of Operation Protective Edge on July 7.
Anonymous claims that since its operation began, it has taken
down “thousands” of Israeli-based websites. The hacktivist group
also released 170 log-in details last Monday which they said
belonged to Israeli officials.

Anonymous has also issued an appeal to all of its followers to
intensify their attacks on Israeli websites.

“We are calling upon the Anonymous collective, and the elite
hacker groups to join our crusade, and to wage cyber war against
the state of Israel once more,” said a public statement from
the group posted online last Friday. "As a collective
'Anonymous' does not hate Israel, it hates that Israel's
government is committing genocide & slaughtering unarmed
people in Gaza to obtain more land at the border."

The group launched hundreds of attacks on Israeli sites two years
ago during the Israeli Defense Force’s (IDF) previous operation
‘Pillar of Defense’ in Gaza. Anonymous succeeded in leaking the
data of 5,000 Israeli officials and hacking into the Israeli
deputy premier’s Twitter and Facebook accounts.

The conflict in Gaza shows no signs of relenting with both the
IDF and Hamas continuing to exchange rocket fire. The Palestinian
Health Ministry reports than over 1.350 people have been killed
in Gaza, while the Israeli side has lost 56 soldiers to the
fighting.